detriment

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Harm, hurt, damage.
2. (UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
3. (countable, uncountable) The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
4. (countable, uncountable) The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).

Verb

To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.

Synonyms

damage

loss

injury

harm

hurt

disadvantage

impairment

prejudice

mischief

accident

flaw

deprivation

imperfection

decrement

lose out

negative profit

defect

tort

trauma

undermining

vitiation

out of pocket

diseconomy

Harm

to the bad

make a loss

blowing up

breakdown

danger

❗

deficit

disservice

drawback

failure

harmfulness

ill

🤢

in the red

maleficence

mishap

risk

sacrifice

scathe

shortcoming

Translations

detrimento

détriment

Schaden

schade

préjudice

daño

perjuicio

Verlust

verlies

Beschädigung

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɛtɹɪmənt/

Etymology

From Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum (“loss, damage, literally a rubbing off”), from dēterere (“to rub off, wear”), from dē- (“down, away”) + terere (“to rub”).
Detriment is based off the word deter, and built on similar foundations to the word impediment.